Policy Press What in the World?: Understanding Global Social Change (Bristol Studies in International Theory)

Analysing social change has too often been characterized by parochialism, either a Eurocentrism that projects European experience outwards or a disciplinary narrowness that ignores insights from other academic disciplines. This book moves beyond these limits to develop a global perspective on social change. The book provincializes Europe in order to analyse European modernity as the product of global developments and brings together renowned scholars from international relations, history and sociology in the search for common understandings. In so doing, it provides a range of promising theoretical approaches, analytical takes and substantive research areas that offer new vistas for understanding change on a global scale. Review "Studying global social change urgently needs interdisciplinary collaboration. In this volume, this challenging endeavour is excellently being advanced in a most fruitful way." Richard Münch, Zeppelin University "Bringing together leading historians, sociologists and international relations scholars, this book invites the reader to a unique interdisciplinary attempt to push forward the boundaries of international historical sociology." David M. McCourt, University of California, Davis About the Author Mathias Albert is Professor of Political Science at Bielefeld University. Tobias Werron is Professor of Sociological Theory at Bielefeld University.